Before anyone mentions a "monster storm"

Kieran_Burns

http://www.ukweatherforecast.co.uk/media-weather-truth/

We're going to get a bit wet next week, it's not the apocalypse. :roll:

UndercoverElephant

Shite! There's going to be a apocalyptic monster-storm next week!!! Run for your lives!!

The Rookie

Read the headline, then read the comments attributed to weather organisations underneath!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/52 ... n-and-wind

Hard to know how Britain was braced (present tense) for a monster storm (sic) if this was the first anyone was even aware of it!

pblakeney

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Shite! There's going to be a apocalyptic monster-storm next week!!! Run for your lives!!

That will be around 50 yards before I give in. I would get much further on my bike.

pblakeney

The Rookie wrote:

Read the headline, then read the comments attributed to weather organisations underneath!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/52 ... n-and-wind

"The southern half of the UK will have a mild day with sunny intervals and scattered showers.

"The showers are expected to be heaviest and most frequent in south Wales and south-west England during the afternoon when they may turn thundery."

Oh, the horror. The horror.

The Rookie

"However, even if this were to happen, probably on Monday night into Tuesday, it is just likely to bring heavy rain and fairly strong winds for a time, but it is extremely unlikely to bring very severe conditions across the UK.

Now that is really scary.......

bendertherobot

Wow, I've never seen the like.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... O=&PERIOD=

Weather forecasting is tough. Getting it right everywhere nigh on impossible so you're a hostage to fortune.

What irritates me is that the Met Office do a really good job and are lambasted frequently. Yet the Express make shit up and are still in business.

Last week their forecast was for increasingly colder conditions to penetrate the Scottish hills. Wow, insightful.

And, last year, their 100 days of snow equated to, well, none.

I detest the Express. Though not quite as much as the Mail.

vermin

Michael Fish

Kieran_Burns

vermin wrote:

Michael Fish

Is that the punchline to the joke "How many surrealists does it take to forecast the weather?"

itboffin

yesterday was up there with one of the wettest days i've seen since living in Windshire, today however its back to the garden of eden.

meh!

pblakeney

Kieran_Burns wrote:

vermin wrote:

Michael Fish

Is that the punchline to the joke "How many surrealists does it take to forecast the weather?"

You sir, are too young to get the joke.

Kieran_Burns

PBlakeney wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

vermin wrote:

Michael Fish

Is that the punchline to the joke "How many surrealists does it take to forecast the weather?"

You sir, are too young to get the joke.

No, Sir - I am not. :P I walked out of the house to go to Uni and watched debris go bouncing down the road...

It does seem that you have not heard of the joke "why did the surrealist cross the road?"

The Rookie

You old fart...I remember setting off to Uni too thinking WTF....my memory of the preceeding 12 hours being a little 'hazy' due to celebrating 'something' with a little alcohol....

My parents house in Kent was exposed to the full winds, circa 135mph yet only lost 5 tiles!

Captain Slackbladder

rubertoe

Kieran_Burns wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

vermin wrote:

Michael Fish

Is that the punchline to the joke "How many surrealists does it take to forecast the weather?"

You sir, are too young to get the joke.

No, Sir - I am not. :P I walked out of the house to go to Uni and watched debris go bouncing down the road...

It does seem that you have not heard of the joke "why did the surrealist cross the road?"

Michael Fish or Potatoes.

bendertherobot

They appear to have ditched Vantage weather now and plumped for Exacta weather instead. Plus some quotes from the METO on occasion.

bendertherobot

Hmm, Vantage have "CLOSED DOWN." I wonder if Exacta are what Vantage were? Rubbish website as well.

Kieran_Burns

This was an intersting read:

http://www.ukweatherforecast.co.uk/uk-w ... edictions/

*long* term forecasts do show a colder than average Winter, with prevalent air from the East. Yay for tailwinds home

Might need the ice tyres a few times this Winter then.

pblakeney

Kieran_Burns wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

vermin wrote:

Michael Fish

Is that the punchline to the joke "How many surrealists does it take to forecast the weather?"

You sir, are too young to get the joke.

No, Sir - I am not. :P I walked out of the house to go to Uni and watched debris go bouncing down the road...

It does seem that you have not heard of the joke "why did the surrealist cross the road?"

I have. And the answer was fish, not Michael Fish. I did get your reference but gave you the benefit of doubt as to your age. I will no longer refer to you as young. I will think of something else.

The Rookie wrote:

You old fart..

There is no need for insults you middle aged drunk. (By admission).

meanredspider

The Rookie wrote:

You old fart...I remember setting off to Uni too thinking WTF....my memory of the preceeding 12 hours being a little 'hazy' due to celebrating 'something' with a little alcohol....

My parents house in Kent was exposed to the full winds, circa 135mph yet only lost 5 tiles!

Pah - I was a working man by then. I remember driving across the Isle of Sheppey seeing all the smashed caravans (and thinking that there is a God after all... )

The Rookie

PBlakeney wrote:

The Rookie wrote:

You old fart..

There is no need for insults you middle aged drunk. (By admission).

How dare you call me middle aged........

Not sure I've ever claimed or admitted to being a drunk?

itboffin

now that looks interesting, you'll notice that London isnt shown that's because we'll be basking in glorious sunshine whilst sipping cocktails outside a trendy city bar.



Grim up north

bendertherobot

It's literally the worst storm in weeks.

Though the Express editors will be hoping (not that it matters for writing headlines) that Britain is truly smashed.

rolf_f

meanredspider wrote:

.........and thinking that there is a God after all... )

Really? And yet there was still an Isle of Sheppey to drive across........

rolf_f

itboffin wrote:

now that looks interesting, you'll notice that London isnt shown that's because we'll be basking in glorious sunshine whilst sipping cocktails outside a trendy city bar.



Grim up north

But they've got Rhyl, Blackpool and Whitehaven on.....!

Grim? Nothing we can't handle..... 50mph headwind? Piffle. I have those for breakfast.......

pblakeney

I await something of note whilst one of my cycling compatriots is suggesting a cafe run tomorrow morning.

I shall decide when I wake up but I believe that the weather shall fall somewhere between the doomsayers and the eternal optimist.

asprilla

I can hear the wind whistling through the scaffolding next door but the trees ain't at 90 degrees so I think I'm riding.

itboffin

its been an interesting night here in the west, i'm WFH again but not due to weather related events

menthel

Pretty windy here, some big gusts. I have decided not to mtfu and am getting PT.

asprilla

Yeah, I stepped outside and it was pretty gusty so I bottled it. Took the Brompton on PT.

It's died down quite a bit now.

smokey_bacon

Was not that bad out on the road. Abit gusty but nothing out of the ordinary.